1997 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner
![As Good as It Gets](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/as-good-as-it-gets-james-l.-brooks-image.jpg)
As Good as It Gets
A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
![Boogie Nights](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/boogie-nights-paul-thomas-anderson-image.jpg)
Boogie Nights
The story of a young man’s adventures in the California pornography industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
![Good Will Hunting](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/good-will-hunting-gus-van-sant-image.jpg)
Good Will Hunting
Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
![Jackie Brown](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/jackie-brown-quentin-tarantino-image.jpg)
Jackie Brown
A middle-aged woman finds herself in the middle of a huge conflict that will either make her a profit or cost her life.
![L.A. Confidential](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/l.a.-confidential-curtis-hanson-image.jpg)
L.A. Confidential
As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen — one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy — investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
![The Full Monty](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-full-monty-peter-cattaneo-image.jpg)
The Full Monty
Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for “the full monty” – total nudity.
![The Rainmaker](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-rainmaker-francis-ford-coppola-image.jpg)
The Rainmaker
An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent insurance company.
![The Sweet Hereafter](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-sweet-hereafter-image.jpg)
The Sweet Hereafter
A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to the town to defend the families, but he discovers that everything is not what it seems.
![The Wings of the Dove](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-wings-of-the-dove-iain-softley-image.jpg)
The Wings of the Dove
An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to hav
![Titanic](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/titanic-james-cameron-image.jpg)
Titanic
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.